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THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN DIFFERENT DISPLAYED EMOTIONS AND WITNESS CREDIBILITY
by
Pui Pui Cheung
A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PSYCHOLOGY)
August 2012
Copyright 2012 Pui Pui Cheung
Object Description
| Title | The role of emotions: gender differences in different displayed emotions and witness credibility |
| Author | Cheung, Pui Pui |
| Author email | puipuich@usc.edu;arpui86@yahoo.com.tw |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts And Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-07-11 |
| Date submitted | 2012-07-11 |
| Date approved | 2012-07-12 |
| Restricted until | 2012-07-12 |
| Date published | 2012-07-12 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Manis, Franklin R. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Farver, Jo Ann M. Bechara, Antoine |
| Abstract | In the past few decades, the role of emotions in eyewitness testimony still remains controversial. The present study examined sex differences in the relation between victims’ displayed emotions and their credibility in eyewitness testimony as well as in different emotional awareness across genders. Both female and male participants watched 26 video clips in which women reported with incongruent, congruent or neutral emotions that they have been raped. Then participants rated the victims’ credibility and made conviction judgments about the men who were accused. The results showed that female and male participants did not show a significant difference in rating victims’ credibility regardless of victims’ congruent or incongruent emotional displays. However, female and male participants significantly made different conviction judgments in both congruent and incongruent conditions. When examining reaction time on both judgments of credibility and conviction, male participants responded significantly slower than female participants in incongruent conditions. Confusion perhaps is one of the main factors that explain the slower responses from male participants. The results found in the present study can be applied to further evidence-based studies in the same area as well as fMRI studies, and also provide a suggestion for the composition of juries. |
| Keyword | emotions; gender differences; witness credibility |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Cheung, Pui Pui |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-CheungPuiP-942.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN DIFFERENT DISPLAYED EMOTIONS AND WITNESS CREDIBILITY by Pui Pui Cheung A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PSYCHOLOGY) August 2012 Copyright 2012 Pui Pui Cheung |
